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second we are okay good evening everybody it's it is July 24th and we will call the goody you Economic Development Authority meeting to
order roll call everybody's here I see okay and um the minutes they were not available at this time there was just a little bit of confusion so they'll be coming next time so exactly
yep so if you want to review adopt or amend the agenda we should just adopt the agenda okay second all those in favor I opposed motion carried good evening Mr kefir all
righty great good to see everybody and uh informational report just wanted to share some things with you and first of all is the um the good Hue pickle ball courts um we had two quots come in CNC
courts uh was the lowest quote I also believe they're the best quote simply because that is their main focus is pickle ball courts so um and the courts are going to be we'll put them into Four Courts but we're going to have fencing
that'll black off the ends of them so the balls aren't always going into their games and we could couldn't put more than four because of the pitch that's in the middle which the pitch is good runs the water off and everything but we didn't want to put a core right in the
middle of it where it's lower on either side so that should that should work out well though because you're going to have a bigger area in between the two courts so it probably won't bother bother games going on as much um but yeah know I feel really good
about the company that we have there and um and then that will be another item later on in the in the regular agenda in the regular agenda yep uh FR Park update um Jason
and I went down there we counted 18 trees 18 of them that are are dead down there um the ash trees so um keep checking the DNR I was told it's going to be coming out again this year um I've
also contacted a few area towns I've gotten I what they've done is they've sent me what they submitted because sometimes a lot of these grants it's how you word it it's everything that's included it's it's more than just the
need so I've got like three three other cities what they turned in that were approved so that'll give us something to go from but um and Jason has told me he'll do whatever he needs to do because I think part of it is you have to go out and you're measuring the circumference
of the trees and that's what you use to create a um to create a cost for removing the trees so it's going to be kind of some detailed work but it'll be well worth it um we're also still
looking for any possible grants that could come along for doing the picnic shelter and playground equipment um Smith is a is Southern Minnesota initiative foundation and they have a couple of Grants coming
out in August and so I'm starting to I'm starting to I took a look at one and I think one could apply for us would apply for what we would want to have done and uh so I'm ready once that baby opens up we're going to get it filled out and
going to go after it um the other idea was tonight I'm just bringing kind of as an official introduction about looking at the make of the Eda board in good Hue
and I know currently you've been using it as just being the city council so but the Eda reports to the city council and you guys have a lot of other things that you're dealing with in the city a lot of responsibilities and so when I looked
into this usually what it is is there's two city council members on it rotate every year the city administrator and then three residents who live within the city limits um so but there's a lot more
discussion to be had on that so we'll do that at the working session in August any questions on that Ed president yes hi Bob is here nice to see the board
I feel like I've seen you guys forever sorry um and uh nice to meet our PDA new staff person uh at least visually sort of we can't really see each other but here I am uh anyway I I like that discussion it's not my place to say that
it's a policy issue obviously but um it's exactly right to say that there are many edas that have a mix of council participation public participation and then some staff uh participation so just to the extent of matters do I think
that's a good that'll be a good discussion have okay good thank you yeah and um and the last thing I have here was and this will be something that we'll talk about at the working session also but just
that just let you know that we did do some background checking on the park uh Parks and Recreation Commission and that was work that kayn had started previous to her uh to her going to a different position so I just want you to know that
we will have information for you for the working session in August and we can have a discussion about how um we create a Park and Recreation Commission and I believe Bob you were you've got some insight on
that for us too as well that we can share in August yeah that's exactly right thanks yep okay and then Mike uh the days next in August I'll be here or August 14th and the 28th um and
and I guess I was just going to also remind you too is tomorrow um we're we're going to be meeting with someone from website Services um a company and looking at how the website can be improved to make things more efficient
for the city but also allow you to continue to expand with whatever needs you feel arise down the road because right now you're kind of you're landlocked right now right so so we'll have information on that in
August as well yeah we as in Todd and I are going to Rochester to meet with us individual then we also have two other quotes um with some ideas with that so we're going to try to gather as much information and try to really get that
website redesigned up running so it will support all the data so we can upload everything into it so it's very user friendly so once we get that meeting and we'll put them all together will report that and I think it'll be important too that then the website can be everybody's
Source in the community to go find their answers instead of going here or there or somewhere else's Facebook page if it's City related you you know where you go to find it and I think it'll really help too that you'll be able to add like celebrations within the community you'll
be able to show you'll be able to show the real personalities of good Hue like when you guys have your special days and everything you'll be able to get that across to people who look at it who are looking to see where are we going to
move to it can only help can only help so okay hey anything else no what was that uh you said Smith southern Minnesota yeah southern Minnesota
initiative Foundation it's actually if you remember Tim Penny was a politician years ago when he got out of politics he went into um uh what's word I'm looking for non um nonprofit went a nonprofit so they
are securing funds from all over the place um and and that's what gives us the opportunities um for small towns most of their grants and Loan opportunities are for for towns smaller than 10,000 people so it's yeah you can
look it up online it's it's pretty impressive all the say there better gig than being a politician they have a lot of opportunities for small cities so as long as we can get in there and really start to grab some of those and so
constantly watching for a grant that it's appropriate and so certainly there's one coming up in August that we looked at and it looks very promising for good youth to secure on these
so okay wonderful good anything else I think so so H's days are Wednesday August 14th on the work meeting and August 28th on the regular council meeting it'll be here so yeah
did I get a motion to adjourn take it a second second all those in favor I opposed motion carried to close the economic development all right thank you everybody thank you all right next on
the agenda we will call the regular council meeting to order um stand for the Pledge of Allegiance please I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the Republic for which it stands one nation
under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all okay uh number three approve or amend the agenda where as you will
know the mayor always has amendments so uh because we have a lot going on so I would like to add um on the bottom the sea sem mmca
Grant so we need to talk about that it's also we kind of know it as deed so sea and deed um we also have on there a request for the Lions Club to have a raffle and
a Paddle Wheel so I have a resolution in there for that they also need to add new Vera to the agenda under other and then last but not least a motion to
accept the quote for the pickle ball courts that was presented because that needs to come to the regular council meeting that's not an Eda because we're going to use some Co funds and other funds for that so Todd's been
researching it and helping gather all the data but it's not actually an Eda so that's why we have to move it to that okay does anybody else have anything to add under other okay so could I get a motion to approve
the amended agenda I'll make a motion to approve the amended okay all those in favor I opposed motion carried thank
you next we have the May 8th and the May 22nd council meeting minutes pretty straightforward I hit um Lori and I had gone over him um
previously I'll make motion to approve may I get a second well second all those in favor opposed motion carried thank you uh next on the agenda is
is the good you tax good you living tax abatement so I I made reference to it at our last work meeting so uh we were looking at it and Libby uh canner has been helping we went
over everything we've looked worked with Northland Securities on it and everything looked good then we said we got the documents signed and we asked Northland Securities to run another numbers since it was in
2021 which they did so if you look at exhibit a on the very first tax abatement project that was initiated back in 2021 the amount that the tax abatement
available tax abatement would be $795,000 years if you flip that over on EX exhibit B when the valuation of the property came back in it was somewhat inflated on
the previous numbers by approximately $7 million so the actual 11year tax abatement comes to $163,300 that being said I met Libby and
I met with two board members on Monday we let them know what has happened they fully understand the numbers numbers don't lie okay so they agreed to
this but if you look in the back of your letter there was discussion about this is an 11y year and although it had some glitches and it started later
Tammy uh from Northland security said it would not be unreasonable to look at extending that to 15 years they still would not reach that 700 some, 792 th000
but it would help to stretch that out now the reason we chose 15 years on the back of your letter you'll see 20 years then it has to go before the school district and the county and they have to
relinquish their tax portion which it's very unlikely that they're both going to agree to that now the board on Monday said we're not interested in doing that we don't want to take money away from the school district because of the 64 new mandates that have come down the
pipe over the last couple years with the schools so they weren't interested in that that but they were interested they were in agreement that 15 years would be reasonable they're still now keep in
mind they're still not going to come close to the 700 and 95,000 but it would help stretch that out for them and we know that this is a worthy project within the community we want it to succeed it would seem feudal
for us to try to work this project as a tax abatement and not help them with that thoughts so what happened taxable market value you said it was originally like 9
million Y and now is 2.4 where did $6.5 million go we didn't go anywhere I think that was the projected of what they thought it was going to come in as but I
think yeah and so projecting and finished product are two different things now the value is they do they do look at that and go well you know could increase by 1% every year they look at that so it was a little surprising to
them as well okay so that's you know it' be one thing if it was like you know six figures here and there but I mean this is like yeah seven yeah yeah and that's that's even what Tammy said and that's what Libby said we kind of talked about that and said that
was a big disparity now whether or not that changed a little bit remember in the middle of the process they had to find a new investor you were on Jason you were on at that time you know and things had to be switched around so that may have had something to do with it so they
certainly understood that so if we were to move forward we with the 15-year tax abatement and that only extends it out four more years it's not like another 10 okay we would have to have a public
hearing to just change that we don't have to change anything else the contract stance it's just moving that to 15 years and it can still be filed by the September 1 deadline but we have to have a hearing on that okay and then
there would just have to be a a motion this evening to um extend the tax abatement out to 15 years rather than the 11 instead of going 163 for 11 go 239
for 15 right yeah around depending on inflation and what we're looking at so it's even still you know even at 20 years up to so we certainly want to work with the community this is
a great project for our community right so um Mr Vols yes yes can we then do the public hearing like before our next work
meeting because it has to be 10 days it has to be posted for 10 days so if we got it out like right away that would give us the 10 days and then we could do that public hearing at the beginning of our work
meeting and as our public hearings the last two nobody showed up we open it public comment nothing probably would be the same with this is that mayor council um so you mayor
having talk to liby my colleague liby that SM about this stuff would know what the the posting and notice requirements are for the hearing so assuming you have time to do those posting and notice requirements for the hearing there's
nothing about the fact that you're having a work session not a regular meeting that would prevent you from having the hearing on that you you could have heing so you get the notice out in time you have the
hearing your next meeting okay yeah we'll just make the we'll look at the numbers in the time frame and make sure that we get that done so okay so with that being said then we
just we need to make a motion on that unless there's are there any any other discussion information that people need on that everybody okay questions Chris you good I think if we can do something
positive absolutely and this is this is very positive I think you know this is a good thing okay so if I could um if someone wants to make the motion to extend to 15 years that's I'll make a
motion to extend the tax to 15 years the second all those in favor I opposed motion carried thank you very much okay that'll be a good thing for
the community okay next on is zoning policy and enforcement so this was one of the things that we talked about at the work meeting and I had a a discussion with um the City attorney and asking how do we enforce this can we um
you know can we you know assign fines and through the conversation Bob enlightened me and so we had a good conversation so he's definitely he's going to sh share that
with us tonight so on what we can and we cannot do okay you're on okay so theis the interest that the city has in
in in doing that in having sort of a city run administrative fining I say administrative because you presumably would impose these fines without having to go to court um that that the impetus for that is super understandable and
sensible uh and something that a number of cities around the state have done um and uh and and it's all sensible and uh efficient because of course trying to get um relatively I think
we're talking about property use violations having too many cars in your in your driveway or in your front yard or not going lawn or having junk in the backyard or etc etc those kind of property nuisance type issues you know
congesting the court system with legal cases over those things is a bad idea directly it's not the courts don't want it they don't have the time for it uh so it's not a great approach so but but the but that you're talking about is that um
For Better or Worse the um state auditor office and the Attorney General both have independently issued opinion that say statutory cities of course there are sort of Two basic kinds of cities in Minnesota Charter cities like
Minneapolis St Paul lth St Cloud Rochester you know relatively speaking large cities that have their own Constitution which is called a charter that's one kind of City the vast majority of the 820 plus cities of
Minnesota are statuto cities that cities that only have power given to them by state law by statutes those kind of cities the opinions say don't have the authority don't have the power to set up
finding regimes on their own that's confusing or or unusual to hear I think for a lot of City officials and maybe resent of cities because the fact of the matter is when someone gets cited for a petty
misdemeanor of parking violation or a speeding ticket U whatever have you those end up just being finable offenses right those are things where you get cited by the traffic cop or by the
parking leader person you pay the fine and it's done that system though isn't a city imposed system that's a state imposed system that's U state law actually creates system for those kinds
of fines um and there's specific Authority for those kinds of fines fines for nuisance violations aren't author there's no law that says cities can find residents for nuisance conditions too
many cars in the front yard or Lawns that aren't modow and so the long really long ler way of saying there really isn't a way that cities can create finding systems for for the kind of violations we're talking about you can
site residents for doing those things for failing to keep their yards in the appropriate condition or other zoning violations and then you can have your county attorney prosecute and I got to do the air quotes for prosecute because obviously these are small offenses where
you would just through the court system pay a fine but you have to use the County Attorney you have to actually site them and you have to actually have part of that paid into the county court system so again longwinded but there
just isn't a way for a city to not involve the county attorney and the court system and just collect fines for these kind of violations you have to actually site people issue a citation is issue a written document to people
saying they violated some city ordinance and then actually passed along to the county attorney's office who will in every case almost just say pay the fine you would be subject to under the court system and accept that but it's not a city run system so sorry to blather on
about this it's something that's near and near to me because all of my clients all the nine cities I work with frankly all the 45 cities that my firm works with think that's a bad answer don't you know much easier we just didn't have to deal with all that r r could just find
people directly ourselves but there just is not a mechanism for doing that great so I'm not sure were thinking about that that's kind of the so as we as we moved into that and we thought well we might do first
offense second offense third offense that is not an option but we can still take pictures make them aware and submit the ordinance that they're in violation of
and put a time frame on a correction and for the most cases most people will abide by that and then if it gets to be the habitual ones for lack of a better word and correct me if I'm
wrong Mr B then we make the decision this is enough I guess we're gonna have to go yeah I'm sorry talk that and that you kind of almost wanted me to emphasize that I didn't say a word about it that's right so given everything I said about how inconvenient
it is for cities to go through this state or County attorney run citation prosecution process given that that difficulty the vast majority of cities that we work with probably the vast majority of cities in the state try very
hard and I think your city would would do the same just as a matter of sort of way you deal with your own folks you try very hard to let them know look we're trying to keep the city looking good we're trying to keep zoning in order we're sending you a letter saying clean it up we don't want have to issue a
citation we don't want to do any of this stuff to you with you with the county attorney we don't want to go down that road at all it would be very difficult for a city to do that probably a couple of times before you actually issue a citation you want people to know they're doing something wrong you want to give
them an opportunity to fix it you probably want to remind them a time or two after youve told them that you really are serious about it before you go down the road of you know citation County attorney the whole thing that's nobody wants to be there it's not
deficient for you it's not good for the land owner so anyway um that what you just said Mar's exactly right and and sort of having a system for doing that makes L sense okay is that understandable to everybody um I have a question now a
citation would be from a police officer from the county from the county okay right and then they would issue that and then that would be then the judge would have to decide the
fine they decide the fine not us so yeah but those would be as a Super Hyper Tech because I appreciate the question and obviously as I've said I'm kind into this subject a bit because it comes up so much just as a hyper technical answer
um there are certain kinds of citations that the county sheriff's department or if you had a police department still your police officers would typically issue uh there are also uh citations like not Mo your lawn that often times a
city staff person would be directed to issue bring the citation out to that person but at the end of the day in every case a County Sheriff's deputy can issue a citation so you know typically what happens is the staff person says I
don't really want to go out there and deal with Mr Johnson that could be problem I'd rather have a deputy do it and depuy's office will always do that so at the end of the day you can always have one of the sheriff's deputies do the actual braing of the citation to the
land owner uh so but theoretically other people could bring the site could issue the citation and deliver if the city wanted to do that so hyper technical but that's the answer to that question
okay so I think we'll we'll go ahead and we'll move forward on the letters we talked about taking the pictures sending them a letter citing the the violation in which ordinance and then giving up corrective action and then go from there
and we'll still include that it will be you know it needs to be corrected and it will afford people so sometimes that's enough for most people to go well I guess I don't want that I better correct it so we'll keep moving forward on that
okay all right thank you under new business all right well welcome Lisa Bretta Penning so we are here we discuss this at our work meeting and for those
of you who may not have met Lisa or know of her yet um she um is willing to step in as our interim City administrator so we've discussed us at our last meeting so we just need to make it official uh
this evening to hire her and she is ready to start on Monday July 29th thank you we've been in need of for a while I I'll make a motion to hire her
for the interm city administrator position okay second all those in favor I I opposed motion carried welcome aboard hey I will um as I said before
Lisa and I have been communicating on a regular basis I will continue to do that as much as she needs me uh she's a very bright individual so she might say go away Terry that's that's my hope that is
exactly My Hope exactly so um but I will continue so um we can get things really moving I am excited about this I think this is going to take us into a whole different direction and be so much more
the processes and checks and balances that we're going to put in place are going to be incredible so um this is a new exciting Adventure yes I have one question um it says we're hiring her but
was there a timeline L on that well interim until like the end of the year looking we kind of said interim till the end of the year kind of watching that and then you know trying to decide we want to see if
she's worthy worthy good and so then we'll look at that and either um and I've discussed with Mr V we can either at that time we can make the motion to make it full-time
permanent or if we feel that we should at least open it up okay and get other applicants and then hire so we have we have different options that we can look at so and Lisa I've had that
conversation with her she is open she was agreeable to that so we'll be just kind of looking at that does she have a chair to sit on um she has a chair but she doesn't have a desk but we're working on so she has a key the door hold up on
yeah it'll be great great so um this is so Mr B can you see Lisa so she will be try really hard to get to the right
screen this is beyond my technical capabilities of course we I've proven my limitations there but yes hi Lisa okay so well I I think we should have a time to have an iners meeting here at some point so yeah
that sounds Goods everybody should just introduce themselves yeah has everybody hi I'm Chris hello Jason yeah Terry Anderson youres
Patrice Riley okay and you've met Todd okay and Jason is on vacation this week so all right yeah so at some point we'll too we'll kind of initiate and get you out and about and introduce you to people as
needed so we'll go from there so we'll work on getting you settled in all right thank you she's got a good group to of of fellow City administrators and stuff she does yes Elizabeth and Brian and
Michael um because you will be sitting on the Sanitary District um you did not say anything sorry well you yep well surprise okay okay one of many okay yeah
money okay uh but so you'll get to know them and be able to work with them but they're more than willing to step in and answer any questions um that you may have along the way and Z has always been very very helpful with any kind of questions so um a really good group of
small small city city administrators who are there okay all right so the next on the agenda is the motion to approve the fa facility's use agreement um this is we had this at the work meeting and um
you we given it to book it over so it's pretty straightforward um Mr V had put this together and this is agreement that when anybody uses any one of our facilities we should have an agreement with them um even correct me if I'm
wrong if we're not charging them for that space correct yes he's not May Council I mean just the guts of this document just deals with the fact that we are allowing a city facility be used for a non at least traditional public
use right we've got a different group or entity or person that's going use facility for their own purposes we just want to make sure that when that happens they protect us they identify us for it happens we're obviously not the ones running things at that point so we just want to protect EV something happens or
somebody gets Hur or whatever so yes the answer is yes whether re charge rent or not we should have an agreement this is a very very simple little agreement so we should have this anybody facilities okay good so could I get a motion to um
approve the faciliity use agreement so move I get a second second all those in favor I opposed motion carried so I have to go now you have to go now okay thanks
for stopping meeting Joe's going to the ambulance board meeting yeah bye Joe somebody's got to go y thank you Joel okay yes maybe I'm out of order here I I just have a question on the
insurance you yeah number six well on the facilities the facilities yeah okay user must provide commercial General viability insurance covering use of the city property in the minimum amount of
1,500,000 for a currents do normal PE I I'm just thinking of people who rent the the park you know for picnics and stuff can you explain that
Bob um I can but can you repeat the question okay under um the insurance part of it that they're supposed to have a minimum amount of 1,500,000 per occurrence the the people that are using the city
property is that correct is that what that says the user must that's what it says and the reason for that that's a standard City requirement that obviously can be wave depending on who the user is going to be if somebody can't do it you
want let use anyway you could wave that but the reason for that is that is the statutory maximum that the city can be liable for a what's called a Tor liability cap for cities under state law and that's the maximum amount the city
could be liable for if somebody got Hur killed on the city facility and you know you can imagine that if somebody was using the city facility even though the city wasn't the operator of that use wasn't the party that somebody else used the city whatever building uh somebody
gets hurt badly they're going to sue the city the city wants to make sure that the party actually using the facility has enough Insurance to cover the city's liability so that's the reason for the insurance so like
somebody renting out the Pavilion for a birthday party we wouldn't necessarily make sure that they had 1.5 million in insurance for a birthday parties I think that's what yeah right we would just
essentially that for a swimming I think that for that it's a great example I think for an example like that you would just say look as a matter of policy we want City facilities to be available for kid birthday parties we understand that residents in town can't go get a million
five Insurance just to have a birthday party so we're just going to wave that requirement for you know small things like that and we're going to let them use it have a simple but just strike out of that provision and not make them do that that's just fine but if it was like
a business like Plumbing decided to come down here and use it then obviously they would probably utilize their company insurance policy is that you have it exactly right yeah I mean you know if somebody's going to have a a full I mean this is the the
gray area maybe a good example would be many cities use um City common areas in City Halls or in other City facilities and allow weddings to occur you know if you're going to have a wedding with 100 people and there's to be alcohol served and you know that may be a situation
where you say look we understand you're a resident you want to use this for your daughter's wedding but you're going to have a whole lot of people there and there's drinking and there's you know we're going to make you have to get the insurance so uh but you're exactly right I mean business uses of city property you'd expect them to have insurance
already frankly any business insurance is going to be at least million already so yes I agree with I agree with your example there is a gray area though where an individual person not a business is going to have a big event that you may still want them to have
that insurance but that doesn't it doesn't say that in here I mean who makes that determination yeah yeah I would say that uh it's set up now the council these agreements have
to come to the council and you may have your administrator come in say we presented our form agreement these folks want to this facility on Sat they don't want to get the insurance what you want to do and in that case you
could vote to approve the agreement but out the insurance you could also you know if you have a not use where you're having these agreements op up you can delegate that to the administrator right you can have the administrator decide whether or not Insurance should be
required I me obviously somebody has to make that judgment then be for you delate that administrator it's just we haven't done that so for now it's up to the city council okay so we can just strike that I think that should be something bring up at the
work meeting is that yes you know how we want to delegate that you know if it's right like like Bob said the the the standard way the gr area yeah because we certainly don't want every
picnic coming for the council so the city administ right exactly okay does that answer your question patri we're good okay we'll talk about that again so okay next on uh the list
is the organizational chart so you've seen this um it has it has been a long time coming every city has an organizational chart every organization has an organizational chart
if they don't they should and hopefully now we do I mean we need to have this laid out to so everybody understands who's accountable to who and so this
certainly lays it out on the bottom it gives a revised um date on it um because we did take out the Eda board um because we don't need that as of yet but as soon as that is there and then also if we add
that parks and wreck um commission that also would be added in there so it's it's a working document but we have to have something so people know who's accountable to who okay so here it is
I'll make a motion to approve the city organization I get a second all those in favor I opposed motion carried okay next we have been approached by
Habitat for Humanity so um as you may or may not know there is a piece of property up on Park Avenue Park Street uh Park Avenue
that is a vacant lot where a home a previous home was taken down now onb notes to some of us there was a single family home there that was taken down but previously it was two Parcels then it was combined so Habitat for Humanity
is asking um to split that lot back into two parcels and they would like to put two homes in there two Habitat
homes one of the homes would be built they're building one is a new program the good you school and they are working with Habitat for Humanity to build a home a construction program and they would like to then if we can get this
figured out they could start and build it on that one of the Lots so is this the same program that they did in Canon acoss from the school I think I'm not familiar with that one the kids the
could you or the Canon Canon kids yeah has it too so well is that Habitat Humanity or was that home build I home by the school yeah that was a yeah yeah that's a construction program where they
build a speck house this is now they're working with Habitat for Humanity so they have an instructor who's going to come in and work with the kids on that now Bob is has looked at this Jason has
looked at it and it meets the stipulations and the guidelines of the zoning and it and it falls within the guidelines of splitting the property because each each lot has to be you know at least 50 feet wide and it
is okay so when I went up and looked at the property this is the only concern that I saw and I really want people to be looking at this there is no driveway for this property from the street it is
accessed by the alley and the alley only goes up to the very first end of that so that alley would have to be extended to meet both properties okay so then the
alley has to be made bigger there's also only um utilities to one of the Lots then there has to be utilities put in to the other lot okay so those are all things that we
should be looking at as a council just kind of the logistics of it so um they had skolfield Johnson and skolfield come out Habitat for Humanity did and had them look and Survey the lot and they
produce this document this is a very recent news document so this is new who owns the land on the Alley that we'd have to extend it the people that are living up there to they home that I'm not 100% sure and unfortunately
Jason is not here but when I went up and looked down that alley um I'm not sure how far that road is going to extend into people's private property so that's an issue that we're going to maybe have to look at then the
other thing is is is there room for a garage there will be no attached garage to this so are we looking at putting in a garage if they eventually want to do that so that's the park right correct up
by the water tower oh okay I see so this must be thaty they're talking y so it would be so cuz yeah you couldn't put a driveway up here because it's that that's Hill right yeah
straight yeah has anybody talked to any of the people that live around this to see what no none of that is and so there's certainly no action you know I I wanted to make sure when I talk to um Mr
Holly and I had a conversation with Mr Holly and Mr Chuck Richardson his attorney for Habitat for Humanity I said please get us some information so I can present it to the council so then they can take that information
and what each and every one of us needs to do you need to go look at that property you need to check check it out this is kind of a whole different thing that we've had to do before we've never done this so looking
at it and how we want to approach it and then at the next meeting at our work meeting then I really think we need to sit down and talk about this now Mr Holly did say he said well we would we would contact
the all of the neighbors okay so um and talk to them about that as well okay yeah that La when it comes up from the street that's not a very it's not real
good drive yeah that comes behind Derek werland it's in very poor shape it is not one a lot of people you know they park on the street but also keep in mind that if you go up there that street is narrow so there's got to be they're not
going to be able to pull up on their yard when it's winter there there's got to be some way and where but that one house there's two houses that will be right behind those I'm not sure where the lines are and where that
alley would go so we need to look into that that's pretty narrow it's tight yeah so if we can maybe look at that and then we'll really discuss this further because there's a lot of questions that need to be answered we
cannot make a decision based on just this but I mean the zoning they can legally split the property correct Bob because it meets the zoning there he is who he Bob I'm here yeah I can't push my my
button you got zoning and subdivision yep uh that allows the council to approve this um and uh you know there are requirements uh for for doing that but yeah I mean if it meets if it meets everything yeah
there's no there's no basis to say no if it meets everything I would say though where as you pointed out I think you pointed out to me you do have a requirement that a new lot have Road frage have access so if the lot doesn't have a driveway off the street and
doesn't have a curve cut off the alley or doesn't have an alley behind I'm not sure how that's going to be complied with so I think that issue will have to be addressed so but yeah you got a mechanism now foring subis in your
yourin so good so please continue to look at that if you get a chance really go up there and walk the property look at it and see because I was like and there's a utility pole right in the middle of it and maybe where the alley
would the the extension would go so it does create a little bit of a and there's quite a Grove of trees that are going to have to be taken out too if I'm looking correctly so we are going to
please take a field trip and look at it last time I was up there was when the house and everything was on the properties all right okay so we'll add that to the agenda um yes they did say that it wasn't feasible that was my
understanding if they can't split it but we can't say yes be just because of that it has to make sense for the neighbors and the alley because um yeah if they have to get in there fire trucks
from the back look at that it's tight that's another thing like that's an Alleyway so if they can't park up front and they had to park in the back would that be the city's responsibility to clear that Alleyway well it's with snow it's a city
alley yes you know cu clear it now that's that's a great question I don't know Chris I haven't love to talk to Jason and ask I know it's not used much and utiliz in the winter a lot of them may park on the street but I think maybe the only
one that does use it is Derek ask him yeah because he's right on that corner Holmes is used to and they live there many years ago but they're not there anymore idea there okay good so just always passing along the information so okay all right
next on the agenda so I printed out the email from Mr huki from the sheriff's department so this is the the email that he sent and the rat so you know I kind of gave them to you you know we haven't
gotten an official contract yet so these are the rates um we could drop to five if we were looking at being a little bit more conservative always keep in mind that
they still always have to respond it's not like well we only have five so we can't respond um so this was the letter that I got on July 17th so we're looking at we're going to have some more discussion
on the work meeting on that as well okay the next one um did anybody do any checking on the like rates for
space and Rental because we can't move forward unless we really know that did he Jason get us the the the dimensions of what they were storing how what square footage you would take to store it he was I thought he get us that yeah
and he's on vacation this week so because we kind of got to know how square feet it takes to right so let's try to let's see if we can kind of um nail that down for a work meeting the other thing that um when talking with
them um the code needed to be changed on the police office door due to the BCA requirements Bureau of Criminal apprehension so they're very strict on that they're also going to be changing
um and bringing in their own computer system to log in to all of their data that they need so because we only have now that code previously I had the code but I am no
longer privy to the code because of the BCA and I said there's got to be somebody here who has the code because we still have an Evidence room in there filled with things that we have to continue to move out therefore the new
city administrator will have access to that code and she will be the only one other than the sheriff's department so it's so secure that the other day the deputy couldn't get in he said well I can't get in so I guess I'm going have to go eat
lunch someplace else so but we'll we'll keep working on that so with that being said when we're kind of blocked out of our own our own office and the bringing in their own computers and they want a desk moved out we do seriously it's
called value added so let's try to put something together I'm going to check with the other cities and see what they're doing as well yeah okay and they will rent that facility from us now or
well we have to figure we'll have to figure that out they definitely said that they will lease the space in the garage but I can't imagine that they wouldn't they they like it here and keep in mind we also have um a probation officer that uses our
conference room once a month all day for people individuals who have to come in and um check in oh really so again we're being very generous and gracious with our
facilities but those have value to okay all right next I um just included the this month's um bill from the sheriff's department and
the calls I think it's always good to kind of look at that um page for the calls yeah yep you know must busy
from you know if you go out and you look at the other small communities you're really looking at some of the calls and read their weekly reports or their monthly reports the other cities have quite a bit it's like sometimes good you we're
not even mentioned and I'm like like that's really a testament to our small town I mean we really there is we don't have a lot of issues that go on I mean and they they are here and
they're you know they're always in the area um but I still continue to get many many positive responses I know it was difficult at first and I know that there's still people who are a
little bit undone about this but um they're here and they they are you know even though they're maybe not you know doing a call for service but they're they're through town and they're here well they stopped and got
lemonade the other day they did and I thought it was awesome and they they are coming to town for National Night Out so um you know and seeing that and they do they they appreciate good you is it you know it is very friendly and it's a it's
a great little Community to come in they like coming here and they've been very appreciative of how they've been welcomed so yeah it's going to go up but with that being said and Lisa coming on board we're going to really knock at
these numbers and see and really try to pull together because I don't think we had a really accurate picture when it came to workman's comp um maintenance of vehicles the money that went
in came out for comparison for comparison so we kind of talked about that so I think we're way under what we before yeah just re I mean even even if we were you know as much as as much as I like the police department I'm not
knocking that at all but you know they were here for eight hours a day that was their shift we're doing six hours now but they're here 24 hours have 24-hour coverage yes that's the way it should be yeah you know just like we did before
it's just the only difference was that somebody responded from their home right I I'm I'm happy with what they're doing like like I said I mean they stopped and supported the little local entrepreneurs with lemonade and cookies
and and they do they they really they really like that so you guys you know if you know anybody that's out there that you know is seeing stuff like this and you know take pictures of it because I know uh John is very
appreciative of that to show the community that that you know the deputies and their Community engagement I mean it's pretty amazing yeah it it has it's been a little bit of an adjustment but overall people are um
they're they're pleased with it so all right um let's see any Council comments thought I'd leave it in from the last one you were so excited
to see it yeah on on half anything um I think we need to revisit at the work meeting I think we need to revisit that room over there and the items that
are in that room yes and what needs to happen because that should not be put solely on Lisa the items that are in that room that we either need to find new homes for and if there's evidence in there I thought all the evidence there is no
evidence the evidence has all been taken by so it's just equipment yeah and and really what's in there is some of the things when I went in it there were things that J and Todd could use out the shop so it was like well we could use that was like take it
um the biggest thing is um the ammunition and um the guns and the gun safe so and that would probably be best in my conversations that I've had is to
um have somebody take them to an auction house um and dispose of them that way so then we know they've done it properly and they've been disposed of that way so or you know not necessarily an auction
house but yeah you take it to a dealer that is willing to do Consignment so it's still doing the correct background check the correct 44 73s to determine that and there are places that will help us in even um goody County gave some
names before about um what we have um there are a lot of things that just um need to be uh destroyed so um like shirts and patches and things like that um those
um so other than that there were a couple there were a couple shirts that saw wore the their big police officer and they couldn't find any shirts big also they said gosh in the interim for Z BR do you have any of his shirts left it
was like why wouldn't we cuz they could we got the patches off they can put some bro on it was like absolutely because he's a big guy so just a few things but we'll we'll get back in there and kind of go through that so is good County
interested in any of it no they are not no unless they've changed their mind but they've taken everything that they thought it water okay all right oh there were so
permission Eed there were some um t-shirts in there that um you know Josh had gotten at some point free and it says lived generously and I thought we should get those out and they could maybe give those away on National Night Out there's a bunch of just nice
t-shirts and they could hand them on so is that okay there's something and even if there even if there's patches in there the patches are not a controlled item but even you know there's so many people that collect patches in the world today that maybe even issue that out and
you know is a momento of history of good you you know hand it out at National might out just the patches you know because you can buy those um BR patches I know I mean it's just something to think about yeah because PL Island had contacted didn't said could we get a couple absolutely of those and I said
you know I'm sure that doable so yeah we we can work a lot of agencies will do that they'll reach out to like I just sent I think 27 letters out for my work to get patches because we have a massive sure wall in our work so yeah perfect
that sounds great okay good mayor comments anybody else Council no okay I don't have anything either I know you find that surprising people
so um on the other um I had talked to you about the uh this sea Grant so what that is is that's kind of that Redevelopment money and that was money that is in a grant well it wasn't spent
so we can carry that over into 2025 so what that simply means is that we can extend that Grant so that's what they're just asking us to do um extend it and continue to use that money so
because the money is still there and it wasn't all given out that's where they send the little cards around okay yeah so we just need we don't need a resolution on it we just need a motion to extend the seche
grant into 2025 so did it say how much was left oh yeah there's quite so this is the one that is for the homeowners to apply and they get there're still
$528,500 so the the difficult thing about this one is if I'm correct that there's kind of some income guidelines and plus you need to commit to staying in the home for 10 years and that's what's hard for
people they're not willing to commit so it's like well here it is so pleas we can extend it so all second okay all those in favor I I I opposed motion carried a really good yeah okay it okay
the next one is resolution 24-12 a resolution of the city of goodu council approving goodu Lions to sell raffle tickets and Paddle Wheel on September 8th that is for the ATV ride
that they do so Mr zigel came um and asked if we could put that on the agenda so I just need a motion for that so motion I get a second second all those in favor all
right opposed motion carried thank you I'm just writing here quick so I don't forget okay and that was Patrice right yes I do this now so I don't forget okay next one is new Vera so at
the work meeting we talked about and Joe brought up about the boxes you know and the incompleteness on on homes and like even on City Hall we have the old box kind of hanging there so um and he talked about sending a letter to newa
Lori went and talked to newa and so the job is not complete yet so they're still working on it and some of those can't be taken off because some of the internet is still supported by
that so they need to finish that so Lori correct me if I'm wrong wasn't it like so when are you going to come and finish it did they give us any time frame they didn't give us a time frame exactly just so that it is ongoing and there are any
complaints to direct directed TOA because they'll keep tickets on all the complaints and get on so if you have a resident complain about the Box on their
side of their house or that it has not be removed just reiterate to them that that is not a city issue that is a newa issue and we've been advised that please call loua they will make a ticket and
register that complaint and so that's the only way that we're going to get this resoled so I was take my own off but I'll ask them I yeah don't yeah don't do that if
you lose all you're in that because the new in there no but that the new one didn't you just stay there connect you cut and some of those towers still have to remain too so okay oh my
gosh I know okay so pickle ball cards so I did send the letter I gave the letter to Mr Benda to take to the Lions board on that I also
gave him tonight the the copy of the quote for that Mr keer had given us so they they have a board meeting on Monday night okay so but in the meantime we can go
ahead and make a motion to approve the bid from CNC for to start moving that process I've been communicating with her even tonight good um and the one thing that she did
mention she was reassess at 50% is down and then we start ordering all materials everything okay you that being well no no we want to get this going what I'm hearing from the
community you guys people are so excited about these pickle ball courts so that's they're excited they want to see this done so I think this is a good thing for the community and they're like that's that's a good idea Chris did you
just say that you played pickleball for the first time and you love it huh other than the on the court it was great we'll get rid of that so what is the total that's there's one that's
26 all together then it's total 39 I asked him to break it down by what's it going to cost for the court and what's it going to cost everything else so prep is 26 on the court since you know more about this than probably
any of us here the Nets what are they made out of and will they deteriorate like the current one that is there now um and what's a life expectancy out of that I think
those Nets tennis Nets that you have there have been there for a long long time so the Nets that we like plan I mean what I would recommend is in the winter take pull them off yeah the Winter's really what makes it hard but
otherwise I mean we're playing we plant portable Nets that are out all summer long and we've been using them for probably three four years and we're still using them okay so and and and the ones that they put up that are permanent are going to be of a higher
quality but these are not permanent no these okay no these nets will be P the PS are permanent but you can take the N yeah the post are permanent the Nets we can remove oh yeah yeah okay exactly yeah the fences will be per yes
yes so then will the current fence that's there now will that be removed no no that's all good shap fence inside of a fence that's what's saving us a lot of money so there will be a fence to divide the
courts on the ends on the ends just not in the side in between them oh so when we there when you walk through the the gate there's a a court here and a court here with the fence that goes in the or the net that goes in the middle so will
the 10 will the courts then be like this so like when you look when you walk in now there's that first tenis Court Y when you come in you're going to have one on this side of the net the current net okay and you're going to have one on the other side okay so each side each team that's on each side will now have a
whole core people there y and then the fence is going to go right where you see the tennis Nets now that will extend all the way across just to get the okay all right I'm tracking
yeah so yeah please um keep us informed and let us know and we'll get that so we can get that going so you know and one thought that I had too is when we look at those courts um it might be you know when it gets to be
winter since we're really trying to save those cords maybe locking that fence to keep people out so you know well I noticed that save on them I noticed that yesterday like there's one lock on it right now like on one side but it's so
Rusty that I'm like why is this not open yeah but now when it comes to add fix the four quarts in there we probably should remove that lock on that other side so you're not kind of and they'll lay that out and kind of let
us know so they'll give usign that we'll share with you when we post that okay great all right so did we make the motion did we accept we did not we did not could I get a motion to accept the
C the the C CC I'll make a motion to accept the C and C courts second all those in favor I opposed motion carried excellent exced Christmas I know well
everybody will be excited everybody's really excited about these I didn't even know what the hike was I'm like d this then I got out there I'm like well no those courts were dormant there there well I started looking at brackets I'm like do this is
well did you see Pine Island you know where Pine islands are so they're redoing them right now because they use the wrong paint and everything probably two years ago so they just got it back so right now they're doing all the work and repainting it and so these quarts
wherever you saw the cracks before they do anything those are getting sealed getting filled in and then once it's once it's level then they'll start putting the paint because it's it's the kind of paint that's got gri to it I
don't know how else to explain it that's good uh one other thing before we get into paying the bills I just wanted to share with you um yesterday the MS bike tram came through town there was 300
bikers um the first one got here about 6:30 so they were there we were down here setting up and helping them unload the trucks in the park and um it was really fun really fun um just to be
there talking with all the bikers um and just kind of visiting with them and you know how they got started and when they started uh some of these people have been doing this for 30 years there was a gentleman there who said I have raised
over $200,000 for Ms um it was very it was great to see um Deb noi and put there they came to cheer on Heather their daughter who rides all the time in honor of her dad and raises money so um
they were there as well so but it was a great morning um so I encouraged them I said please come again they said this is a great little town and this is a great rest out and I said well they do camp and I said if you're ever here and you
want to start I said there's more than enough room to set your tents up and and Camp here too so um but they were very appreciative of that and encouraging them so it was it was really fun they were all gone by 10 o'cl so we had them
all cleaned up and they were gone but it was it was very good very good so next motion to pay the bills so one of the things on here um on page one 724 2024 that would be today
says mattress disposal was there mattress lay somewhere it BS fast oh so these are oh it's a combination of things yeah I going to say holy that's a lot that was yeah L's
training CLK training yep so again I will make I get a second I haven't seen it was so we did get um also you know
you're looking at the bills but then uh Lisa always he she has the cash control statement that has everything I looking for that that big one supposed to be is that I thought this 77,000 That was
supposed to be coming in but it's um we had we had something coming in this is the end of this is last month and then July one we would have gotten our LGA so you'll see that next time yep yep okay
that's didn't see of that because that all right so Chris made the motion to pay the bill so we're just waiting second okay all those in favor I opposed motion carried to pay the
bills and we'll pass this down to Chris or Patrice you want to sign that okay so any questions on how any of the um cash and how we're doing good we're staying over a million two million yeah so we're
doing good going consistent so [Music] what did we ever do up here as a pool for the concessions they working out of just an old plastic box or something we [Music]
ever we ended up getting a cash box brought it up there and then they found one they found another one so they are using a cash box up there um the little pool update is that we chose to get water and Gatorade y that is not selling
at all oh really so we will do that again H so um you know and then we'll discuss that more at the work meeting what we want to do if it's not selling and we have it we'll figure out abely I have ideas
but yeah it's just not yeah so we can talk about that we should talk about that at the work meeting so bring that up so how we can kind of you you know recoup that money on that so um
the last thing that I just wanted to include this was for Minnesota remember when we had our our PNP election in March and so the forms came back that we those would be reimbursable dollar so we
finally did get um for the election so I'm hoping that maybe that will happen again I don't know they they never know and they will never we are not going know until it actually happen so we do
have that did help the first one so yeah so and we also have one um you know we have election coming up on August 13th primary so we're working on getting the workers and scheduling and getting everybody trained so we'll be following
up and calling making sure that they all have their training so getting that done so with that being said could I get a motion to adjourn make a motion to adjourn the meeting second all those in favor I I
oppos motion carried thank you very much e